Improvement in hoes



N ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHLIP CRAP() AND HENRY E. CRAPO, OF BRDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT EN HOES.

Speeillcation forming part of Letters Patent No. 323.9%?, dated August 67 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PHILIP CRAP@ and HENRY E. CRAIO, bot-h ot' Bridge\\"ater,in the county of Plymouth and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Improvenient. in Hoes; and we do hereby declare the.

following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the seine, reference heilig Vhad lo the accompanying drawings, making pnrt ot' this specification, in which- Figure l is u perspective view of our hoe, and Fig. 2 a front view of the same.

Arepresents acoin mon steel hoe-plate, formed with teeth B at itslower edge. The said teeth the hoe-plate is formed with-teeth tapering downward to points. l i

Our invention is confined to a construction of hoe in which the plate is lett entire for at leest one-half oi'its breadth, and in which the teeth meet at their base and taper regularly and lgradually downward "td narrow edges. By these peculiarities of construction a tool is produced which is adapted to perform the various functions ot' weeding, earthing-up growing crops, and uncovering potatoes or other roots with'greater ease and e'ect than any other forni ot' hoe or lrelire of which we have knowledge.

We claim as our invention herein- A new article of manufacture consisting of a hoe formed with yteeth occupying less than one-halt' its width, beveled at back and tapering gradually downward in width to nnrro edges. i

In testimony ot' which invention we hereunto set our hands.

PHlLIP Clit-MPO.

, HENRY E. URAPO. Witnesses:

SAML. Benoit.

JOSHUA E. CRANE. 

